Intel to Expand Its Presence in Myanmar

By

Sam Holmes

Dec. 6, 2012 4:45 a.m. ET

Intel Corp. has set up a distribution channel in Myanmar, making the chip maker the latest in a series of large U.S. corporations to enter the long-isolated country as it opens its borders to foreign investment and new goods.

For decades, the microprocessors and hard drives produced by Intel, as well as other products from Western countries that maintained trade sanctions against Myanmar, entered the Southeast Asian country through unofficial means. As a result, most of Myanmar, public and private, has failed to modernize...